Schoolcare

Analysis

Schoolcare is a registered charity in United States, based in Berkeley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending August 2023, Schoolcare reported income of $244k and spending of $259k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from August 2020 to August 2023, income fell from $433k to $244k (-44%), an average of -17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2021, when income dropped by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Schoolcare sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile, and in the 60th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Safer Diy Spaces ($244k), The Oaks Womens Club Inc ($244k) and Kids Rainbow Daycare Inc ($244k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $307k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $307k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.